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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn

Posted on September 7, 2016 by reelentropy

Labor Day weekend 2016 was bad. If you discount last summer’s holiday weekend that saw War Room take the weekend crown, you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find a Labor Day weekend that did worse than this … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #alice in wonderland, #anna kendrick, #apocalypse, #batman v superman, #days of future past, #deadpool, #disney pixar, #ghostbusters, #johnny depp, #pete's dragon, #pixels, #snow white and the huntsman, #sony, #star trek, #star trek beyond, #star trek into darkness, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the witch, #tim burton, #warcraft, #X-Men, alice through the looking glass, Bad Moms, Beauty and the Beast, Ben-Hur, cannibalism, Central Intelligence, CGI is bad, China loves WoW, Collision Course, Don't Breathe, Election Year, finding dory, ha ha ha ha Mila Kunis, Harry Potter, Hollywood is dumb, Ice Age, Independence Day, Jason Bourne, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, Legend of Tarzan what were they thinking, maleficent, me before you, Me Before You genuinely advocates suicide, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Mila Kunis, Movie budgets are too damn high, Nerve, Nerve is everything you've ever wanted in a hollywood movie, Nicholas Sparks, now you see me 2, out of the shadows, Resurgence, Sausage Party, Secret Life of Pets, Seth Rogen, Sexism and feminism be damned, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, the BFG, The Conjuring 2, The Last Stand, the lobster, the neon demon, The Purge, The Shallows, There is absolutely no reason to make a movie for more than $120 million, Transformers 4, War Dogs | 2 Comments

Don’t Breathe is fantastic

Posted on August 24, 2016 by reelentropy

As Suicide Squad begins to run out of steam, the director of the 2013 Evil Dead reboot drops off a late-summer gem in Don’t Breathe. The movie follows three Detroit burglars — Rocky (Jane Levy), the ringleader and her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and lovestruck … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #star wars, #suicide squad, #sxsw, Don't Breathe, Don't Breathe is fantastic, Don't Breathe will show you things you didn't want to see, Fede Alvarez, Lights Out, Stephen Lang | Leave a comment

A less chaotic state: 1959’s Ben-Hur

Posted on August 18, 2016 by reelentropy

Ben-Hur holds a unique place in cinematic history for a wide variety of reasons. It’s a movie you’ve definitely heard of, but it’s only on the fringe of what I’d call an enduring classic. It’s highly emblematic of the time it was … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state | Tagged #fury road, #lord of the rings, #mad max, #star wars, #the force awakens, #the revenant, 70mm, Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, Fury Road was the best thing ever, the Ben-Hur remake is going to be a disaster, the chariot race, Titanic, ye uninitiated heathens | 1 Comment

The real-life Bourne legacy

Posted on July 29, 2016 by reelentropy

The Bourne Identity is one of those movies that was so massively influential it gets taken for granted. On the eve of the franchise’s second attempt at rebooting, let’s look back at the movie that shifted action on its axis. Going … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state, White Noise | Tagged #batman begins, #casino royale, #daredevil, #die another day, #mission: impossible, #quantom of solace, #star wars, #the matrix, Jason Bourne, Mission: Impossible II, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Legacy, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Green Zone, The Phantom Menace, The Raid, The World is Not Enough | 10 Comments

The Möbius strip: TMNT carries weak weekend, Rogue One reshoots steal headlines

Posted on June 7, 2016 by reelentropy

As expected, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows carried the week with a limp $35 million. X-Men: Apocalypse came in second, while Me Before You more than doubled its expected opening- Box Office Mojo With Ninja Turtles disappointing, just like Apocalypse a week before, Variety asks whether or … Continue reading →

Posted in The Möbius strip | Tagged #batman v superman, #daniel craig, #Dawn of Justice, #dory, #findingdory, #johnny depp, #keira knightly, #mebeforeyou, #pirates of the caribbean, #roman polanski, #star wars, #teenagemutantninjaturtles, #tmntmovie, #x-men: apocalypse, amber heard, American Sniper, blair witch project, Captain America, chris kyle, depp heard divorce, emilia clarke, finding dory, gareth edwards, hail hydra, jane bond, me before you, nicolas winding refn, out of the shadows, reshoots, rogue one, sickhouse, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, the lobster, the neon demon, the world's end, TMNT | Leave a comment